I'm a Southern union member and most union members are for the most part socially conservative. The sole reason a lot of them vote Democrat is for that union support. They have the impression that Republicans want to bust unions or destroy unions. If the Republican party would swallow its pride and dial back its anti-union sentiment, maybe potentially endorse some pro-union policies, it would absorb a sizeable chunk of the Democrats voterbase, further pushing them down. It only takes one small step to absorb an entire group of voters.
Speaking of which, I've noticed since Trump got back in office there are more union jobs, especially in locals that are normally dead and have no work. I wonder why that is...
"If only the republicans dialed back X and adopted the liberal views on it more people would vote for them"
STFU, this is literally what every lib said about everything from illegals to trannies, and what Jeb Bush ran on. If you want Jeb Bush as president so much just admit it instead of beating around the bush faggot
You really believe that anyone besides the Boomers are going to be able to retire?
I know plenty of Gen Xers that have retired, although to do so they did have to go from a high COL area to a very low COL area, but outside of that they're doing great, people forget that even the last Gen Xers are in their late 40s and were too old to get fucked by the 08 recession, with their biggest struggle being that ancient early 2000s recession post tech boom.
My PoliSci teacher said that the tariffs were a bad idea because they were too strong from the get to. He said what he should have done was tell the manufacturers that he was raising the tariffs by 0.1% every year for ten years, and to slowly train workers while the companies build factories here.
I so badly wanted to call him a retard. You wanna know what would have happened? Every company would just say "lol sike", not do fucking anything, and then the first tariffs hit for 0.5% and everyone fucking whines, which causes all these politicians to instantly walk back and shit their pants and the economists get to gloat that tariffs are icky bad wrong despite them doing fucking nothing.
that whole "business school class" scene in Back to School is literally about this. these professors don't know what the real world is like, and how they teach vs people that know what the fuck they're talking about teach is like night and day. my family life science class was taught by a former social worker, and my criminal justice class was taught by a former cop and despite both teaching in a huge college in a blue state every lesson was a redpill, just force feeding it to hundreds of teenagers a week.
businesses are all about "damage control" and you need to move fast and hard in order for them to get the message, look at bud light. companies are perfectly fine riding out disasters if it doesn't hit until next quarter, or even better next year. Look at movies or video games, no one gives a fuck if a bad idea gets made because it will be years down the road before tranny simulator gets released and the blowback could hit someone else entirely.
Disney is still releasing films greenlit by Chapek. Look at that Gillette and that toxic-masculinity commercial they aired in 2019, it didn't matter if it caused people to stop using their product because enough people said "lol who cares" that it didn't hit their stock price right away and they were able to ride it out.
The difference with beer is that its something people will buy daily and visibly so its harder to shrug off, so the effect was so fucking apparent that it caused very quick damage control and they still never recovered. businesses are like people, under times of stress and immediate action they panic and fuck up. This is why trump did this by executive order vs waiting for a law to pass, it takes so long for a bill to pass corporations would pay off people to water it down to nothing, here they're caught with their pants down.
